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Do you know of Kirkland ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kirkland. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Kirkland.

Our sources for Kirkland (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Kirkland other than they indicate that Kirkland would be found somewhere in Washington County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1911.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Kirkland ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Kirkland.

Within Kentucky, the name Kirkland is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, twenty are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Escambia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Kirkland [Escambia County].
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Kirkland [Fayette County].
    • Arizona
      • Yavapai County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Kirkland [Yavapai County].
    • Arkansas
      • Ouachita County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kirkland [Ouachita County].
    • Colorado
      • Weld County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Kirkland [Weld County].
    • Florida
      • Marion County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Kirkland [Marion County].
    • Georgia
      • Atkinson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kirkland [Atkinson County].
      • Coffee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kirkland [Coffee County].
      • Jeff Davis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kirkland [Jeff Davis County].
    • Illinois
      • DeKalb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kirkland [DeKalb County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Kirkland.
    • New York
      • Oneida County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kirkland [Oneida County].
    • North Carolina
      • Cabarrus County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Kirkland [Cabarrus County].
      • New Hanover County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Kirkland [New Hanover County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kirkland [Chester County].
    • Quebec
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Kirkland.
    • South Carolina
      • Kershaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kirkland [Kershaw County].
    • Tennessee
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kirkland [Lincoln County].
      • Williamson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kirkland [Williamson County].
    • Texas
      • Childress County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kirkland [Childress County].
    • Washington
      • King County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Kirkland [King County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Sauk County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Kirkland [Sauk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kirkland ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kirkland:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Kirkland - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Kirkland.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/42760   (Place Name: Kirkland)

County: Washington     (FIPS State/County: 21/229)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Kirkland) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Washington County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Washington County.

AntiochJenkensville
 Jensenton
Beechland 
BlincoeMcIntire
 Montfort
Croakeville 
 Simms
Fenwick 
 Yancy

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Kirkland could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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